"I grew up in the '70s and '80s as a typical middle-class kid who watched way too much TV. My first artistic endeavors were drawing on the walls of my closet with a purple crayon, copying characters from the funny pages, and rendering all four members of Kiss. In high school, some kids brought a R. Crumb comic book to school. Crumb's art had a huge impact on me and inspired me to become a cartoonist."

 "After college, a myriad of low-paying, dead-end jobs, and limited prospects in the cartooning business, I picked up a paintbrush and began to paint in 1998. My paintings are an extension of what I did as a cartoonist, though not quite with the same linear narrative as comic strips. Again, through self-training and trial and error, my paintings have evolved into distinctive arcs."

"My approach to painting is very much like that of an illustrator, with smooth brushstrokes and very little physical texture. I create narrative pieces inspired by the extraordinarily ordinary, juxtaposing the rough with the refined. My paintings imagine a world where clumsy robots live among dysfunctional crows and alcoholic bunnies. In this fictionalized reality, these oddball characters serve as stand-ins for actual humans. This is all done to say something about the human condition while poking fun at the real world."